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Really great idea - excited to try this out!

Author here, our company also went through YC in 2015. Email me with any questions: chris at laskie.co

I just did a short thread on how we went from $0 -> $2m ARR with founder-led B2B sales. https://twitter.com/ChrisJBakke/status/1309197276061945857 There was a lot of interest, so I…

Thanks for the context. "Management was basically incredibly incompetent, for a long time, and were so unfair to employees at the company that they felt this was the only option" W…

Gmail is 15 years old. Maps is ~15 years old (and was the combination of several acquisitions in the maps space: Keyhole, Where2, Zipdash, etc.) Chrome is 11 years old + extremely …

Almost every successful Google product over the last 15 years has been the result of acquiring an already-built product and marketing + distributing it well: Youtube, Nest, Waze, D…

We were fortunate to have Geoff as one of our YC group partners in S2015 and he asked tough questions and kept us focused more so than almost any other early investor we had. Looki…

The SAC vest story is fascinating. Have a source on that?

No, they have a massive sales team, they just call them "customer advocates" or "Ecosystem Account Manager" or "Product Advocate" https://www.atlassian.com/company/careers/all-jobs…

Must be, right? Typically long-term single family PM fees are 8-12% and multifamily is 6-9%.

Fair point - updated my original comment to remove the expansion of the "bay area."

Perfectly said. In the 80s and 90s, the "center" of SV was Mountain View and surrounding cities, with the VCs mostly in Menlo/Palo Also. In the last 10 years, as companies have dec…

What's your point? People are moving to Oakland, and it's a lot easier to commute from Oakland to SF than from Oakland to Palo Alto or Menlo.